About 70% of Teachers in Detroit Lakes School District Have Received COVID Vaccinations

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) – About 70% of teachers in the Detroit Lakes School District have received COVID-19 vaccinations.

Superintendent Mark Jenson says the District is in a good place and things are moving in the right direction in regards to reducing the spread of COVID within the District, “we have suspended our COVID response team meetings, those were meeting once a week – where we’re seeing part of our staffing issues are the vaccine doses. We’ll lose staff the following day after the vaccine.”

As of March 6, about 55% of Minnesota’s teachers and child care providers have been vaccinated.

Transmission rates of COVID-19 in Minnesota schools is less than half a percent, however Jenson admitted, Monday that the school’s high school hockey team was forced to end their season early due to multiple positive COVID-19 cases.

The District COVID Team will now work with the Minnesota Department of Health to conduct contact tracing.